5.03.2015

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Black-Asian tensions: Not the cause of Baltimore: NPR's coverage of the Baltimore uprisings included an update that focused on tensions between Asians and Blacks in the city. While those tensions do exist, it misdirects the conflict away from the structural racism and inequality that causes those dynamics to exist.

The Fight to Reclaim a Word: Simon Tam's attempts to trademark the name of his band, The Slants, has turned into a free speech issue. More on the long fight to reclaim a slur from Tam himself.

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Finding A Name, And Myself: What if it took you half a lifetime to reclaim and fight for your own "ethnic" name? How do you choose a name for your daughter? Sy Yang, a "Korean-Canadian-now-in-American," tackles these questions.

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Asian Americans and Suicide: To Identify or Not to Identify?: In much of the media coverage of three suicides of students in the Palo Alto Unified School District this year, most outlets ignore an important fact -- that they were all Asian American. High school youth worker and therapist Liz Lin on why this is significant.

Meet the Godfather of Indian Pizza: "Tony" Dalvinder Multani is the owner of Zante Pizza, a San Francisco establishment that sells Indian pizza. Oh, and try to ignore the really bad descriptions of all the people.

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Vincent Paolo Villano: The Next Generation Awards 2015: Meet Vincent Paolo, director of communications at the National Center for Transgender equality, endeavoring to share real-life stories of transgender people and urging members of the media to cover transgender issues in a respectful way.

Asian American: The Ken Fong Podcast: Pastor Ken Fong just launched a weekly podcast exploring the cultural, artistic, historical, and spiritual aspects of the Asian American community. The first episode, featuring an interview with rapper MC Jin, just dropped.